Merging a symlink-add from a foreign repository loses the special status.
There doesn't seem to be an open issue for that...
----- Forwarded message from Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> -----
> From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
> Subject: Re: Properties lost on checkin
> To: Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek_at_or.uni-bonn.de>
> Cc: "users_at_subversion.apache.org" <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:00:05 +0200
> Message-ID: <20110517100005.GC31703_at_lp-shahaf.local>
>
> CC += dev@
>
> I haven't tried with 1.6.x, but merging a symlink-add from a foreign
> repository does result in bogus state with current trunk:
>
> [[[
> % $svn merge -c r922451 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/publish/
> --- Merging (from foreign repository) r922451 into '.':
> A faq.en.html
> % $svn st
> ~M faq.en.html
> % $svn info faq.en.html
> Path: faq.en.html
> Name: faq.en.html
> Working Copy Root Path: /tmp/svn/wc1
> URL: file:///tmp/svn/r1/trunk/faq.en.html
> Repository Root: file:///tmp/svn/r1
> Repository UUID: 0d8f1070-806c-11e0-a89b-a382cea1935c
> Node Kind: file
> Schedule: add
>
> % file faq.en.html
> faq.en.html: ASCII text, with no line terminators
> %
> ]]]
>
>
> I'll forward this to dev@ (CC'ing you).
>
>
> Christoph Bartoschek wrote on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:24:30 +0200:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a workarea where I merged in some changes from a completely
> > different repository. One of the changes was the creation of a link.
> > After checking in I see that the link is ok in my workarea but not in
> > any other workarea.
> >
> > This due to the missing svn:special keyword that was not checked in. How
> > can this happen?
> >
> > The following shows inconsistent behaviour in my opinion. How can this
> > be explained:
> >
> > esquad$ svn proplist -v tm.h
> > Properties on 'tm.h':
> > svn:special
> > *
> >
> > esquad$ svn info tm.h
> > Path: tm.h
> > Name: tm.h
> > URL: https://server/trunk/include/tm/tm.h
> > Repository Root: https://server
> > Repository UUID: 608964b8-1798-474c-b2d9-552667dc04a5
> > Revision: 27
> > Node Kind: file
> > Schedule: normal
> > Last Changed Author: christoph
> > Last Changed Rev: 26
> > Last Changed Date: 2011-05-16 18:11:17 -0400 (Mon, 16 May 2011)
> > Text Last Updated: 2011-05-17 02:51:09 -0400 (Tue, 17 May 2011)
> > Checksum: 1a7ff762ceabb28ca8865f9b0ba377ff
> >
> > esquad$ svn proplist -v https://server/trunk/include/tm/tm.h
> >
> > esquad$ svn diff -r HEAD tm.h
> >
> >
> > This shows that locally the svn:special keyword is set but not on the
> > server. But svn does not see any difference. Is this a known bug? Or
> > how can I get the missing keywords checked in?
> >
> >
> > Christoph
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